Eastern Europe

Motuzas: Lithuania sees Nord Stream 2 as potential threat to environment

MOSCOW – Lithuania doubts that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project meets all international requirements and standards and sees it as a potential …
Interfax-Ukraine

Soyuz spacecraft’s October launch to ISS may be moved to December

BAIKONUR – The launch of the Soyuz MS-07 manned spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station (ISS), scheduled for …
Interfax-Ukraine

RFE/RL: French presidential front-runner denies Russian media accreditation

French presidential front-runner Emmanuel Macron’s campaign has declined to give Russia Today and Sputnik press accreditation after his team found the …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Reuters: Russia says use of force on North Korea would be ‘completely unacceptable’

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov called on North Korea on April 28 to end its banned nuclear and missile development programs but …
Reuters

Associated Press: Germany says reviving G8 with Russia ‘not up for debate’

The German government says there are no plans to invite Russia to return to the club of leading industrialized nations. Read more here.
Associated Press

Reuters: Kremlin says Putin to discuss fight against terrorism with Merkel, Erdogan

Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on May 2 and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on May 3 in Sochi, the …
Reuters

Reuters: EU on course to renew Russia sanctions barring Le Pen election win

The European Union will seek to renew economic sanctions against Russia when they expire at the end of July, encouraged by U.S. President Donald …
Reuters

RFE/RL: Supporters rally around accused Russian historian of Stalin’s crimes

PETROZAVODSK, Russia – Historian Yury Dmitriyev has a morbid talent for finding mass graves moldering beneath the forests of the Russia’s northern …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Poll: Over 80 percent of Russians are happy about Putin’s work as president

Like a month ago, 82 percent of Russians said they approve of the work of Russian President Vladimir Putin as president of Russia and 18 percent are …
Interfax-Ukraine

The Guardian: Russian warship sinks after collision with freighter in Black Sea

A Russian naval reconnaissance warship has collided with a Togo-flagged boat near Turkey’s Black Sea coast, prompting an evacuation. There were no …
The Guardian

RFE/RL: Russian authorities blacklist Khodorkovsky NGO ahead of protests

Russia’s top prosecutor has blacklisted a nongovernmental organization set up by former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a move that puts the group in …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

The Independent: Estonia – Russia may station troops in Belarus to challenge NATO

Estonia’s defence minister has said that Russia may use large-scale military exercises to move thousands of troops permanently into Belarus later this …
The Independent

Reuters: Russia accuses Macron campaign of discriminating against its media

Russia accused French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron’s campaign team of discriminating against its media on April 27, saying it had trampled …
Reuters

The Moscow Times: Alexei Navalny hospitalized after latest attack

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was hospitalized on April 27, after an unknown man attacked him outside his office in Moscow. The assailant …
The Moscow Times

Russian Defense Ministry: Russian Black Sea Fleet’s Liman vessel sinks

The Russian Black Sea Fleet’s Liman vessel has sunk after being holed, and all its crewmembers are alive, the Russian Defense Ministry said. “The …
Interfax-Ukraine

CNN: Russian ship sinks in Black Sea after collision

A reconnaissance ship from the Russian navy’s Black Sea Fleet has sunk after colliding with another vessel off the coast of Turkey, Russian state …
CNN

Associated Press: Russian navy ship sinks in Black Sea, all 78 crew rescued

MOSCOW – A Russian naval reconnaissance ship sank April 27 after colliding with a freighter off Istanbul, but all crew members were rescued, the …
Associated Press

Reuters: Russia’s Gazprom says Poland’s PGNiG files monopoly complaint to EU

Polish gas company PGNiG has filed a complaint to the European Commission alleging monopoly breaches by Gazprom, the Russian gas giant said on April …
Reuters
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